Public consultation began today on eight proposed changes to the Act which include: how school board elections are run ensuring all education employees are Police vetted before they begin work strengthening and clarifying Teaching Council of Aotearoa processes dealing with teacher conduct enabling the Education Review Office to review professional learning and development services The Ministry is also consulting on possible changes to the priority categories for out of zone enrolments in state schools. If there are any changes to priority categories resulting from this consultation, these would not be introduced until 2022 at the earliest. This means that the current priority categories will continue to